Tosin Akinluyi

Tosin Akinluyi

Advisory Board Member

The Inclusion Initiative

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Languages
English
Key Expertise
Strategy, business development, management, organisation, leadership

About me

Tosin is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, responsible for EMEA Fixed Income, Economics and Equity Research Financials. Tosin has a proven track record in strategy, business development, management, organisation and leadership. She has over 25 years of international finance experience and, within that, 20 years of experience across Commodities and broader Macro Research. Her career has spanned strategy and consulting roles alongside building, leading and advising analysis and research teams globally.

Aside from her financial knowledge and experience, Tosin also has a passion for and commitment to education and talent development, particularly as it relates to growing ethnic minority and female pipelines. She is Morgan Stanley's Executive Sponsor of the UK Government’s Race at Work Charter Champion and also chairs the Firm’s Race to Action Group, which drives and implements the Firm’s EMEA race inclusion strategy. Tosin has been instrumental in founding and driving several diversity-focused programmes and initiatives including the pioneering Step In, Step Up Programme.

Tosin is the recipient of several awards and recognitions including being named the Black British Business Award’s 2023 Financial Services Senior Leader and her inclusion in the 2020 Cranfield Business School list of 100 Women to Watch 2020, which identifies leading female professionals suited for board positions on FTSE 350 companies. She has also been featured in efinancialcareers.com as A Role Model for Diversity and been named as one of Top 30 Inspirational Women on Boards by Brummel Magazine.

Tosin is also an experienced and accomplished public speaker on a range of topics including leadership, career progression and diversity & inclusion.

Tosin is an Advisory Board member at the Business School of Sussex University.

Tosin has a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, an MA in Development Economics from Sussex University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Expertise Details

Strategy; business development; management; organisation; leadership